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Glarysoft's Glary Utilities is one of the most consistently popular and most frequently recommended system utilities, and why not? It bundles some of the most useful Windows-related tools in one free download. It scans and cleans your PC, cleaning temporary files, removing junk files, fixing broken shortcuts, and resolving a wide range of issues, both major and minor, that most Windows users will have no trouble recognizing. You can configure its One-Click Maintenance option to run just those processes you want with a single click, making regular maintenance just too easy for excuses. You can run any of its many tools individually, too.

Glary Utilities has a basic but colorful (and skinnable) dialog-sized interface with tabs for Status, 1-Click Maintenance, and Modules. Under Modules, Glary groups a wide variety of tools under a series of headings, some of which access the same tools from different categories: Clean & Repair, Optimize & Improve, Privacy & Security; Files & Folders; and System Tools. We clicked Scan on the 1-Click Maintenance tab, which initiated a system-wide scan for junk files, spyware, and lots of other stuff that we needed to fix or throw out: sort of like cleaning the basement, actually. Glary Utilities displayed its summary findings, and we could click to view details or just press Repair Problems to fix the lot, which we did. The tool swiftly purged our system of the obsolete, unneeded, and junk data that can clog your machine over time, compromising performance and even security.

The 1-Click Maintenance is reason enough to keep Glary Utilities and run it regularly, but more excellent reasons can be found in its Modules, which let you run Glary's utilities individually as well as access many more tools, including a file shredder, startup manager, memory optimizer, registry defragmenter, and file recover and undelete tool. It also lets you run a variety of Windows utilities from Glary's interface, including the Process Manager and System Information. Running tools like the Duplicate File Finder now and again and the 1-Click Maintenance regularly will help keep your PC running fast, smooth, and safe. We recommend Glary Utilities to all Windows users.

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From Glarysoft:
Glary Utilities is a great system optimizer that provides a one-stop solution for PC performance optimization. It offers windows registry cleaner, disk cleaner, memory optimizer, startup manager, tracks eraser, system control, file management, system restore, performance accelerator and many other amazing multifunctional tools. With this helper, you can fix registry errors, wipe off clutters, free up disk space, optimize internet speed, safeguard confidential files, recover deleted files, check for software updates and optimize your system. Glary Utilities provides an automated, all-in-one PC care service, including thorough scan for issues like invalid registries, unnecessary startup items, temporary files, Internet history and spyware. Just one click can keep any PC problems away. Glary Utilities offers the safest and most efficient registry tool in the market to clean registry and fix registry errors. It cam free up more space by removing invalid registry entries and temporary files. Its process and startup manager lets you intuitively view the running processes. It can delete browser add-ons to accelerate Internet speed, analyze disk space usage and find out duplicate files. Furthermore, Glary Utilities allows users to uninstall software completely in batch. It also can check for the updates and keep you up with the latest programs. This new version has a more intuitive interface. There are more modules in this version, including windows registry, disk space, system tweaks, anti-malware, privacy, system control, system status, hard disks, drivers, file management and programs. Under each module, there are more detailed classification about the function. Users can choose the specific item to fix the problem easily instead of looking for the proper tool one by one. This new version includes more than 20 system utilities. Besides, this version can scan and analyze your PC issues even more thoroughly than before and more faster.

What's new in this version:

Version 3.9.0.137 updated Japanese, Turkish and French translations and improved Firefox cache cleaning.

"Everything" including some things like desktop icons, the desktop background and taskbar icons... you know, LITTLE things like that. I really didn't feel like spending hours experimenting what checkmark affect what part of the computer. After I ran it, I felt like I just ran a system recovery instead of a registry clean-up.

Running Revo Uninstaller will get rid of the program and its leftovers.

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Updated on Aug 30, 2013

Also, System Restore will get your computer back to normal before you run a safe program like Registry Mechanic.

Cleans computer well still, new version looks cool (customizable skins).

Cons

Runs unnecessary processes at startup that slow down pc and cannot be disabled. Prompts to download and install new version at startup. The program runs at startup in some way or another and cannot be disabled.

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It would be very nice if glary utilities might become like the way it was before version 3 in terms of resource usage - not running any processes at start up at all.

Duplicate file remover does not work. It scans for the files and identifies them, but does not remove. Apparently this is a known issues - I wasn't the first to complain - but I don't hold out hope that they're jumping to fix a feature on this free version. Too bad, for an otherwise good product.

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It's worth it to download for everything else it does -- it just shouldn't be listed under "duplicate files remover." Because it doesn't.

I always have around 3 cleaners/optimizers and this one is always one of those. It catches issues others may miss - like the others do hence it being good to use more than one. It's easy to sue, the one-click maintenance especially. Has a great Toolbox of other utilities.

Cons

I wonder how much better the Pro version is and if it is worth buying when the free version does such a good job.

Summary

Cleaners/Optimizers are essential to have and Glary Utilities runs in the top 3 for me.

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